ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,750, issued on April 14, was assigned to Credo Technology Group Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Dual path clock forwarding" was invented by Yasuo Hidaka (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Junqing Sun (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Retimers and retiming methods may employ dual path clock forwarding to drive a transmit clock generator. One illustrative integrate retimer circuit includes: a sampling element configured to produce a digital receive signal by sampling an analog receive signal in accordance with a sampling signal; a timing error estimator configured to produce a timing error signal indicating an estimated tim...